OUR STAFF & KIDS ARE SAFE, reports Asia’s Hope. “As you can imagine, our kids and staff are on edge — a powerful aftershock interrupted church on Sunday morning, and another one struck right as the kids were going to bed. Some of the older structures in the city of Kalimpong, India, have been damaged, including minimal damage to the house where our Kalimpong 5 children’s home has been residing (they have since been moved to anther location).” [Photo from AsiasHope.org]

I’m certain you are following and continuing to pray for those affected by the tragedy in Nepal as well as our friends and orphanage in the city of Kalimpong, India, less than 300 miles away. You can read the blog from our partner, Asia’s Hope, for local details. Please allow me to reiterate what I mentioned last Sunday, and invite you again to give financially to the global relief effort. Here is a recent CNN headline:

More than 4,800 people dead. More than 9,200 injured. Eight million affected across Nepal. One million children urgently in need of help.

Because of the indigenous relationships God has orchestrated for us in the region we are in the rare position of being able to direct our financial support precisely and fully to clearly identified and urgent needs, and to impact the very issue highlighted by CNN – orphans. I see our partnership there and the work that Greg, Adam and others have done to get us there, as undeniably orchestrated by God.

Or…have you been considering supporting our orphanage yet only have funds available for Nepal ? Let’s do BOTH together!

If you commit, for example, $20/month for 2 years to our orphanage ($480), we can match your gift and send $480 out of our global missions fund to Nepal. We would LOVE to have many of you take this approach so that we can simultaneously support both the current Nepal need and continue to build support for the long term ministry of the orphanage.

I realize this idea seems a bit opportunistic and if we were somehow gaining from it locally I might feel sheepish, but I’m utterly convinced that these are two critical issues which both deserve our sacrificial generosity.

Thank you church, you’ve already responded as I suspected you would…

Proverbs 3:27 “Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to act.”